When mixing vocals, it can often be effective to ‘notch out’ a few specific frequencies with very narrow-bandwidth parametric EQ bands. So soothe will remove the whistling tone from s without affecting the noise-like components too much.įinnish company Oeksound say that Soothe started out as a vocal processing tool, and describe it as a “dynamic resonance suppressor for mid and high frequencies”. Soothe works with unlimited amount of bands and the control signal is the point-likeness of the spesific frequency.

De-esser typically works as two band compressor, the control signal is based on the overall level.

It automatically detects the resonances in the audio material and applies a reduction that matches the input signal, saving you from having to manually notch the problematic frequencies.

Soothe is a spectral processor for suppressing resonances in the mid and high frequencies.

Oeksound's first plug-in to market called soothe was released back in 2016, this went under our radar. They recently release a transient control plug-in called spiff, which we liked a lot because it is different from most other transient shaper plug-ins.

Oeksound is a relatively new plug-in developer.

Soothe definitely has some unwanted artifacts and it does change the depth a little, but sometimes they are worth it.

It can help prepare for broader EQ stroke afterwards. I still occasionally use Soothe in mastering if the mix is unevenly bright and dull in the same range, and usually on the mid channel only.

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